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READING HALL

THE DOORS OF WISDOM

 

 

 

THE

REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V

BY

WILLIAM ROBERTSON

 

INTRODUCTION


A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY IN EUROPE; FROM THE SUBVERSION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

 

SECTION I.

View of the Progress of Society in Europe, with respect to interior Government, Laws, and Manners.

SECTION II

View of the Progress of Society in Europe, with respect to the Command of the National Force requisite in Foreign Operations.

SECTION III

View of the Political Constitution of the principal States in Europe, at the commencement of the sixteenth Century

 

BOOK I.

FERDINAND, KING OF SPAIN

 

Regency of Cardinal Ximenes

The Proclamation of Charles I of Spain

Charles V of Germany, King of the Romans

The Spanish Reaction

 

BOOK II

HENRY VIII, OF THE UNITED KINGDOMS

 

Cardinal Wolsey and the Field of the Cloth of Gold

Martin Luther and Leo X

The Régime of the Church under the Medieval Popes

Erasmus and the Invention of Printing

The After-day of the Diet of Worms

Europe at War

BOOK 3

KINGDOM OF SPAIN.

THE REVOLT OF THE COMUNEROS

 

Padilla and the Junta

Death of Padilla

Germanadas. The End of the Spanish Revolution

1523. Francis I and Charles duke of Bourbon

1524. Luther's Reformation Progress

BOOK IV.

THE ROAD TO PAVIA

 

Pescara versus Bonnivet. On the road to Pavia

The Battle of Pavia. February 24. 1525

Francis I, the Golden Prisoner

The Conspiracy of Morone

The Treaty of Madrid, February 14, 1526

The Peasant's Wars

The Teutonic Roots of Prusia

The Sack of Rome

The Battle of Mohacz

BOOK V.

THE SIEGE OF MILAN

 

ESPECIAL PRICE FOR A POPE

FRANCIS VERSUS CHARLES.

THE STORY OF ANDREA DORIA

1529.]CAMBRAY: THE PEACE OF THE LADIES

THE CONFESSION OF AUGSBURG

LEAGUE OF SMALKALDE AND RETREAT OF SOLYMAN. 1532]

HENRY VIII IS DECLARED GODHEAD

THE KINGDOM OF THE ANABAPTISTS

THE STORY OF THE BARBARROSA BROTHERS

BOOK VI.  

FRANCIS I AND HIS ZEAL FOR RELIGION

 

FRANCIS I AGAIN DEFEATED IN ITALY

1536. STATE OF EUROPE: THE FOLLY OF THE KINGS

THE RETREAT OF THE INVINCIBLE ARMY

1537. THE MADNESS OF THE FRENCH KING

1538. THE PEACE OF THE POPE

THE STORY OF  THE MURDER OF THE DUKE OF FLORENCE

1539. THE CALL FOR THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

THE SPANISH PRIDE AT TEST

STATES OF THE UNITED PROVINCES

GROWTH OF THE ORDER OF THE JESUITS

1541. THE DIET OF RATISBON

STATE OF AFFAIRS IN HUNGARY

THE DISASTER OF THE EXPEDITION AGAINST ALGIERS

BOOK VII.

THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

 

THE MURDER OF THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR

1543. CHARLES GET READY TO STRIKE BACK

FRANCIS AND SOLYMAN

THE REFORM MAKING ITS OWN WAY THROUGHT

1544.THE DIET OF SPIRES

PEACE OF CRESPY

THE POPE, THE EMPEROR AND THE PROTESTANTS

1545. IMPERIAL DIET OF WORMS

Jan. 18. THE OPENING OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

BOOK VIII.

DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER

 

CONTROVERSY between ROME and the REFORMERS

The ANTI-PROTESTANT LEAGUE on the road

GCONFEDERATION of all the PROTESTANTS states

1547. The VICTORY of the imperial FORCES

GENOA. The Strange STORY of the insurrection of FIESCO

BOOK IX.

DEATH OF FRANCIS I

 

The Battle of Muhlberg

The Surrender of Wittemberg

The Reduction of Saxony

King Ferdinand and the Bohemian Rebels

The Murder of the son of the Pope

Trent in the waiting-room of the Station of History

The Interim of the Emperor

BOOK X.

NEW LEAGUE AGAINST CHARLES

 

The Case of Innocent the Ape

The rise of Maurice of Saxony

Character of Philip II

The Siege of Magdeburg

Revolution in Hungary

New League against Charles

Maurice’s manifesto

History of the council of Trent

The Treaty of Passau

BOOK XI.

ABDICATION OF CHARLES V

 

The Siege of Metz

Albert of Bradenburg and death of Maurice of Saxony

The Story of Roxalana and Mustapha

Mary of England and Philip of Spain

The Siege of Sienna

The recess of Augsburg

The Court of Paul the Fourth

1556.] Abdication of Charles V

Philip the Second

BOOK XII. DEATH OF CHARLES V

 

1557] The retirement of Charles from the affairs of Power

The Battle of St. Quintin

The Peace of the Pope

The Sagacity of Cosmo di Medici

The Duke of Guise conquer Calais

The Madness of the Pope Paul the Fourth

The Road to the Peace of the Kings

Death of Charles I of Spain and V of Germany

The rise of Queen Elizabeth and the

The Treaty of Chateau-Cambresis [Feb. 6, 1559]

Conclusions

FINIS